Wheaties promotion still going

St. Louis ? Kansas University fans apparently can’t get enough of their Wheaties.

KU Alumni Association officials are coming to St. Louis with more commemorative Wheaties boxes stuffed with “Wave the Wheat” T-shirts.

The association already has sold out of its first run of 2,500 boxes, which feature a large Jayhawk on the front and the lyrics of the “Wheaties” jingle that has been adopted by KU fans; the KU pep band plays the jingle when opposing players foul out of games, and fans bid them farewell by waving the wheat.

Kirk Cerny, an association vice president, said an additional 1,000 boxes had been ordered. Boxes are for sale:

From Alumni Association officials in St. Louis.
At the Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Ave. in Lawrence.
On the Internet at www.kualumni.org.

Practice times: The Edward Jones Dome opens to the public at 11 a.m. today for team practices. Here’s the schedule:

KU is on spring break. If you couldn’t be playing in the NCAA Tournament, where would you want to go for spring break?Asked of KU guard J.R. Giddens, playing through his first spring break in college.”I don’t know, because right now if I wasn’t playing basketball, I’d probably want to be watching basketball. But if not, I’d be on a beach, trying to get a nice little tan — you know, check out some good views and stuff like that. Most likely, I’d be on a beach. Maybe I’d have a TV and some earphones, listening to a game.”

Noon to 12:50 p.m.: University of Alabama-Birmingham.
1 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.: University of Nevada-Reno.
2:10 p.m. to 3 p.m.: Kansas University.
3:10 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Georgia Tech University.
The Jayhawks are nesting at an athletics crossroads.

Banners along Market Street outside KU’s team hotel, the Marriott Pavilion, herald the NCAA 2004 Division I Wrestling Championships, which were contested over the weekend at Savvis Center.

But KU players can relax: Banners on Seventh Street, which also runs alongside the hotel, trumpet the basketball regionals going on down the road at the Edward Jones Dome. Seventh Street leads directly to the dome.

Cathy Lewis’ taste buds will be rooting for KU on Friday.

Lewis, vice president for membership with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, made a wager with the chamber’s counterpart in Birmingham, Ala., home of Kansas University’s Sweet 16 basketball foe, the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers.

If the Jayhawks win, the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce will send barbecue pork ribs for Lawrence’s staff. If the Blazers win, Lawrence’s staff will send Hereford House steaks to Birmingham.

Lewis has no doubt who will win: “Those ribs will taste excellent,” she said.